6:17 PM,
Mar. 27, 2013

Rachel Scott. top right, was among victims of the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado in 1999.

Written by

Lisa Fingeroot
| The Tennessean

Metro Nashville educators hope students are infused with compassion and kindness when they hear about the legacy of 17-year-old Rachel Scott, the first victim of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.

Her brother, Craig Scott, is bringing Rachel's message of kindness to Nashville on April 6 for a Youth Safety Summit at McGavock High School.

"I have this theory that if one person will go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same," Rachel wrote in an essay just weeks before she was killed. The essay, which Rachel named "My Ethics, My Code of ...